Should I start Michael Wilson or Nate Boerkircher in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 10:21 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Michael Wilson: 87 percent of the snaps and 25 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Nate Boerkircher's 51 percent of the snaps and 5 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR46 · ARI · bye 14
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- Market-based projection
- 13.1 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 120
TE21 · JAX · bye unlisted
- Market-based projection
- 2.3 pts a game
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Michael Wilson, and the board ranks him 120th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Nate Boerkircher, and the board ranks him 121st overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Michael Wilson is 2.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Nate Boerkircher's market-based projection is 2.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 109th highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.
Michael Wilson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Michael Wilson has been on the field for 89 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 22 of the offence's 88 third down targets, had 9 of its 29 chances inside the five and seen 22 of its 57 two minute targets.
His 81 targets have averaged 11.4 air yards.
In Week 6 against LAR he caught 4 of 7 targets for 32 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against DEN he carried 2 times for 11 yards, caught 4 of 8 targets for 55 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against DAL he carried 1 time for 17 yards, caught 8 of 15 targets for 111 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 8, Nate Boerkircher has been on the field for 48 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 9 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.
In Week 5 against PHI he caught 2 of 2 targets for 20 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against HOU he caught 2 of 2 targets for 8 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against IND he caught 1 of 1 target for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Michael Wilson played 17 games and scored 220.6 PPR points, 13.0 a game, finishing WR10.
He caught 78 of 126 targets for 1006 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.
That came to 7.4 targets a game, a 62 percent catch rate and 12.9 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 81 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Nate Boerkircher is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Side by side
Michael Wilson is a wide receiver and Nate Boerkircher a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Michael Wilson is off in Week 14. No bye is listed for Nate Boerkircher.
Michael Wilson is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Michael Wilson has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 9 on the board
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